| comp., MS |
parent (A device, bus, function, or process at one level of a hierarchy. The parent controls the behavior of components below it in the hierarchy); parent object (The object in which another object resides. A parent object implies relation. For example, a folder is a parent object in which a file, or child object, resides. An object can be both a parent and a child object. For example, a subfolder that contains files is both the child of the parent folder and the parent folder of the files) |
